Title
DEEP-CLAPS

Medium
Creative Zen Vision:M and iPod V
The clips with 30sec playtime are available in 352 x 288 pixels as mpeg1-files (*.mpg) and wmv-files (*.wmv) and in 320 x 240 pixels as mpeg4-files (*.mp4).

Status
For more information see
www.kunstkommt.de
www.deep-claps.de.

Artist
atelier KUNSTKOMMT!
Michelle Adolfs & Petra Mueller

Bio
Michelle Adolfs (*1972) and Petra Mueller (*1969) work as visual artists and social scientists by the name of atelier KUNSTKOMMT!. The German artists team concentrates mainly on the impact of digital media on everyday life culture in images and values. Since 1996 they explore forms of media communication and their relationships to materiality. The art works originate in multiple formats including the web, installation, video, performance, photography, painting, objects. Their website www.kunstkommt.de presents current projects as well as an archive of previous works.

Project Information:
The webvideo project “deep-claps” is a download platform with video clips about aphorisms as cultural shared wisdom. Everyone knows some — aphorisms are used almost inflationary. As a central part of our culture aphorisms are an indicator of meaning and thinking in society. There are some very deep and dark tellings, which play diffuse roles in everyday communication.

We are searching for emotional ambivalences in the combination of word and image. The globalization with a simple English translation of words forces an isolation from cultural references and meanings. In short video clips the metaphors of mostly German aphorisms are transferred into absurd scenes. What is in these thoughts with so called “deep” truth?

The clips are published as edition online via www.deep-claps.de. With a “download and send to a friend” they travel around the world …

Title
RANTAPOD

Medium
Video.

Status
Video iPod
RANTAPOD
Ipod - rss feed Podcast Feed

Artist
G.H. Hovagimyan

Bio
G.H. Hovagimyan is an experimental artist working in a variety of forms. He was one of the first artists in New York to start working with the Internet in the early nineties. His work ranges from hypertext works to digital performance art and installations. His collaborative work, with Peter Sinclair, A SoaPOPera for Laptops was recently in an exhibition at the Jeu De Paume Museum in Paris. He has a podcast called Art Dirt Redux that is in the top 10 of art podcasts in the U.S.

He has contributed articles to Leonardo the Journal of the International Society for the Arts, Sciences and Technology, and Intelligent Agent an online journal about new media discourse.

His digital work is in the collections of The Walker Art Center and The Whitney Museum of American Art.

Project Information
rantapod is a video meditation. It talks about art, politics and philosophy. It contains 3 minute rants or ruminations by G.H. Hovagimyan. It is highly experimental in it’s discussion and outlook. Contrary to Post Modernism’s simulation and irony this is a serious ongoing investigation. It strips away all artifice and presents a minimal/punk video discourse. The series is an outgrowth or continuation of GH’s conceptual and network performance starting in the 1970’s. It also refines and extends the concerns of his 21st century performances such as: Palm Rants and rant/ rant back/ back rant.

For additional information visit
spaghetti.nujus.net/rantapod/

TITLE
160

MEDIUM
SMS messages, iPod

STATUS
160 - Viewing the Artwork 

1. Download the ZIP file fromhttp://www.kisky.co.uk/160/160.zip
2. Unzip the contents (you will have a folder called 160).
3. Enable disk use for your iPod using iTunes.
4. Connect your iPod.
5. Copy the SMS folder to your iPod’s Notes folder.
6. For more instructions go to Extras -> Notes on your iPod.

ARTIST

Katie Lips

BIO
Katie Lips has worked with Netmedia for several years having a traditional arts background with diverse skills across digital arts and creative commerce. Educated at Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design, London, and DeMontfort University, she has developed a strong interest in user interaction in mobile spaces. 

Katie’s work with Digital media is centred around the concept of the ‘user as content creator’, the notion that we all create art and communications without necessarily trying. Katie uses technology to capture these streams of consciousness and to display them offering new views on the personal private mobile world. 

160 Project Description 

160 is an archive of 160 SMS messages that I have treasured in the past 18 months. These messages, of up to 160 characters each have been sent to me from my boyfriend, sister, parents, and friends, from phone companies and people offering me SMS porn. 

The messages are unedited, a snapshot of what people have been sending me, telling me, asking me. These are my messages, but not my messages, they are not what I have written, but what I have collected, and chosen to keep. These things mean something to me, as do so many messages to so many people. 

Whilst we know what we send by SMS, and we know what we receive, we do not have any idea what other people get, how other people compose messages; we have no view into other people’s phones. As a Digital Artist, I was keen to explore this with the development of treasuremytext (www.treasuremytext.com). This project ‘160′ is 160 of my messages stored on treasuremytext. It is a snapshot made available for anyone else to browse how they choose, to make their own judgements about me, my text life, and the people who send me messages. 

Most of us have to delete SMS messages we have received from our phones, this collection demonstrates the powerful nature both in the important messages and the mundane ones that can be tracked back over an extended period of time. Without treasuring these messages they would have been lost, but now have a new life as a text archive which can live away from the mobile phone. 

The availability of messages for others to take away using their iPod offers people voyeuristic opportunities to explore the content of this work, to try to construct their own stories around the messages they find, to identify their own meaning to build their own picture of those whose mobile lives have touched mine. Much of the content of my messages is humorous, throw away, perhaps pointless; this hints at what the rest of us carry around in our pockets but never show anyone else. 

Whilst it is possible to get content off a phone onto a computer, or onto a website, this project extends the possibilities for viewing mobile art by making this content available on iPod. iPod is used as the viewing device, offering greater control for the audience. The use of iPod also raises questions about ownership of artistic content, each user creates a new version by the act of downloading and viewing the work.

Title
iCU

Medium
Flash

Name of device:
iPod, high end cell phones and mobile device that support Flash Lite.

Status
Viewable at:
www.ramieblatt.com

Artist
Ramie Blatt

Bio
Ramie Blatt was born in Montreal, Canada, in 1966. He graduated with a degree in physics from McGill University and later studied anthropology and fine arts. Ramie has built a career as a multimedia and software developer while also exploring many interests: nature, travel, humanitarianism, writing, meditation, yoga, filmmaking and art. He has lived in and experienced diverse landscapes and scenes in the Americas, Australia, Oceania, Europe and Asia. Ramie now lives in Miami with his wife, Kaylin; they are expecting twins.

Project Information
“I See(the) You” is an interactive artificial life installation, currently showing at “MOVING IMAGE: Video, Animation and Software Art” at Alonso Art Gallery in Miami, to November 25, 2006.

This is a Flash-based installation with video camera. It generates hundreds of ants that swarm randomly. Occasionally, they swarm into a pattern, tracing out the viewer’s face. The image soon fades and the ants swarm again.

A small scale version of this piece called “iCU” for mobile devices (iPod, cell phone) will react instead to any image selected, such as from a cell phone’s camera.

A demo of “iCU” is available at my artist web site, using my own image.
www.ramieblatt.com

Artist E-mail Address:
ramie@ramieblatt.com